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The essays in this collection focus on three themes in Turko-Persian culture: the importance of literature; the tension between central and peripheral institutions in Turko-Persian societies; and the confrontation of the Turko-Persian Islamicate world with the European world.Read more...

Introduction : the Turko-Persian tradition / Robert L. Canfield --
Pre-Islamic and early Islamic cultures in central Asia / Richard N. Frye --
Turko-Mongol influences in central Asia / Yuri Bregel --
Islamic culture and literature in Iran and central Asia in the early modern period / Michel M. Mazzaoui --
Perso-Islamic culture in India from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century / Francis Robinson --
Theological "extremism" and social movements in Turko-Persia / Robert L. Canfield --
Local knowledge of Islam and social discourse in Afghanistan and Turkistan in the modern period / M. Nazif Shahrani --
Russia's geopolitical and ideological dilemmas in central Asia / Milan Hauner --
Chronology of events and developments in the history of the Turko-Persian ecumene.